Chicago, Phoenix, and Boston online critics agree...

by Nathaniel R

We've reached the portion of film critics awards season where the groupthink is really kicking in despite a plethora of options avaiable to voters. I don't blame the critics groups so much as the process. Critics groups tend to be a lot more interesting if they all vote in a room together on winners (where they can discuss) than they do when they name nominations and do simple vote counts... you're bound to end up less adventurous with the second system. There is shockingly little variation in the winners from Chicago, Boston (Online) and Phoenix. The three latest groups to announce have the exact same winners for Picture (Banshees) Director (EEAAO), Actress (Blanchett), Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Screenplay (Banshees), Score (Babylon), and Animated Feature (Pinocchio). There is no single category in which all three groups have a different winner....

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TÁR dominates Indiewire's Critics Survey

by Cláudio Alves

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Despite their name, one shouldn't consider the Critics Choice Awards as an accurate reflection of critical consensus. More often than not, that organization seems singularly fixated on predicting the Oscars to the point it's hard to denote any idiosyncrasies of taste. To get a better grasp of what the critics think, one should regard such surveys as the one Indiewire did with 165 critics and journalists, among them our own Nathaniel Rogers. Though various titles are mentioned across nine lists, one picture stands tall above all the others, signaling a clear favorite from the season. TÁR obliterates the competition, damning them all to hell like the maestro herself, raving like a lunatic with an accordion in hand.

The survey results, plus some commentary, after the jump…

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Three more critics groups go wild for "Everything Everywhere..."

Ke Huy Quan continues his Best Supporting Actor dominance with two more prizes for "EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE"In today's critics awards news, Las Vegas Film Critics Society (LVFCS), the Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA), and Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) announced their wins. All three groups chose the multiverse hopping chaos of  Everything Everywhere All At Once as the year's best film...

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BSFC, LAFCA, and NYFCO winners

by Nathaniel R

"ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED" won three more prizes today

A big Critics awards day today the night before Oscar begins voting on its finalist lists for the categories that use that process (i.e. not the ones that get the most press). After the jump one of the three most important critics associations, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, plus the enduring and usually interesting Boston Society of Film Critics, and the relatively new group New York Film Critics Online (not to be confused with the biggie, NYFCC, which already announced).

Today's three critics groups had some similaries but agreed unanimously on two things: Ke Huy Quan for Best Supporting Actor and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed for Best Documentary. We're happiest of course with complete disagreements since TFE loves the spreading of wealth. Best Animated Feature and Best Supporting Actress for example, resulted in a different winner at each of these orgs. Winners and a few comments are after the jump...

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Atlanta Film Critics Circle loves the multiverse

by Nathaniel R

The Atlanta Film Critics have announced their winners for the 2022 film year with Everything Everywhere All At Once the big takeaway with 3 prizes (Film, Director, Supporting Actor). They agreed with the venerable NYFCC on 3 of the 4 performance awards though it's far too soon into the season to know if we have "critical sweeps" on our hands with Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, or Ke Huy Quan. The AFCC winners are after the jump...

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